Type of fast torpedo boat.
A small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat.
1He commanded the motor torpedo boat in the flotilla leading the invasion.
2One of them, 97-year-old Whangaparaoa man Neil Harton, commanded a Royal Navy motor torpedo boat during the invasion.
3Photo: RNZ Neil Harton, who is now 102, commanded a motor torpedo boat protecting minesweepers clearing a path for the invasion fleet.
4The boat assigned was a motor torpedo boat and it lay alongside a pier in the afternoon and waited for the commandos to come aboard.
5Also anchored at Portsmouth was Motor Torpedo Boat 102, which Churchill and Eisenhower used to review the fleet assembled for the D-Day invasion.
Translations for motor torpedo boat